tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1317303314956656232..comments2016-12-05T13:04:31.334-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Hollywood Dreaming (Gavin Lambert / Russell Lee)Zephirinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-3699379840235920182011-01-23T11:43:41.859-08:002011-01-23T11:43:41.859-08:00That line did it for me too. Unforgettable.That line did it for me too. Unforgettable.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46376956278526705992011-01-23T08:17:11.688-08:002011-01-23T08:17:11.688-08:00Wow: &quot;the most impermanent person I could ima...Wow: &quot;the most impermanent person I could imagine in the world&quot;Robbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33822959803466169742011-01-19T08:13:35.893-08:002011-01-19T08:13:35.893-08:00My friend is a woman from Mauritius, who settled i...My friend is a woman from Mauritius, who settled in Los Angeles about 10 years ago and is now finally developing a successful business as a private chef and caterer &quot;to the stars&quot; (among other, lesser folk), rather than doing other work that didn&#39;t really engage her or allow her to use her talents. Reading her email and picturing that drive, which is preserved in my mind in all seasons, but does seem special in winter, I think, I couldn&#39;t resent her, despite the fact that the New York City and Philadelphia weather was so ghastly, cold and painful. It was that southern California dreaming thing, I think. I will check out The Slide Area (great title). I like every line I read and was kind of dumbstruck by: &quot;Last night on the weather telecast the commentator, mentioning electrical storms near Palm Springs and heavy smog in Los Angeles, described the behavior of the air as ‘neurotic’.&quot;curtisrobertshttp://curtisroberts.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75126965865880373022011-01-19T07:19:16.157-08:002011-01-19T07:19:16.157-08:00Lambert&#39;s life story is a pretty interesting o...Lambert&#39;s life story is a pretty interesting one, for a writer. And for quite a while I&#39;ve thought that The Slide Area is the best book anybody&#39;s ever written about Southern California. It catches a feeling of a time and place, now pretty much gone forever. Though as the note from your friend on the PCH hints, maybe some paradises last forever.<br /><br />Up at our end of the coast it&#39;s still cold and dark, foggy.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60632846404941964542011-01-19T05:50:19.805-08:002011-01-19T05:50:19.805-08:00It&#39;s great to see this and such a California c...It&#39;s great to see this and such a California contrast to the weather we&#39;re having here. Yesterday, while in a very cold, icy, wet and unpleasant Manhattan, I received a note (such is the way of the today&#39;s world) from a friend telling me that she was driving along PCH from Malibu toward Santa Monica on what she described as a glorious California winter&#39;s day. I never read The Slide Area, but would like to. I&#39;d forgotten that Lambert wrote Inside Daisy Clover. The Russell Lee photographs excite so many nerve endings and summon up thoughts and real and imagined memories. It&#39;s amazing to see the Farm Services Administration credit attached to such different pieces of Americana than those you&#39;ve mostly been displaying.curtisrobertshttp://curtisroberts.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.com